Team

(he/him/his)
Office: 419 Corcoran Hall

Prof. Schmidt uses electron scattering to investigate the structures that protons and neutrons form within nuclei, and the structure of quarks and gluons inside nucleons. Some of the puzzles he’s most excited about are the mechanisms that cause protons and neutrons to form short-range correlations, the EMC Effect, and effects of two-photon exchange.

(he/him/his)
Office: Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Exploration Hall, 104B

With a career spanning over 40 years, Prof. Briscoe has researched fundamental symmetries, nuclear structure, the structure of the nucleon, few-body systems, and hadron physics.  His work as brought him to Jefferson Lab (Newport News), LAMPF (Los Alamos), BNL (Upton, NY), TRIUMF (Vancouver, Canada), NIKHEF (Amsterdam, Netherlands), MAMI (Mainz, Germany), MAX-lab (Lund, Sweden), CENS (Saclay, France) and PSI (Villigen, Switzerland).  Briscoe has served as director of the GW Institute of Nuclear Studies (GWINS) and has been the Director of the GW Data Analysis Center – the former SAID group that moved from Virginia Tech to GW in 1998. Briscoe was named an APS Fellow in 2005 “for significant contributions to the understanding of pionic and electromagnetic interactions with nucleons and nuclei, fundamental symmetries such as time-reversal invariance and charge symmetry; and the design and construction of the JLab Tagged Photon Facility.”

(he/him/his)
Office: Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Exploration Hall, 104C

Prof. Strakovsky is an experimentalist in fundamental nuclear and particle physics. He received a doctoral degree from the Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute (PNPI) in 1984 and worked as a research scientist at PNPI before joining the Physics Department at Virginia Tech in 1992 and then the Physics Department at GW in 1997. He has been a full research professor there since 2009. He has been a visiting researcher at TRIUMF, Canada; MAX-lab, Sweden; Jülich FZ and Mainz U., Germany; BNL and JLab, USA. His research is on hadronic and electromagnetic physics and nuclear structure. Now his main experimental focuses are on Jefferson Lab and the future EIC at BNL. In particular, the future K-long facility (approved by JLab PAC48 for 200 days of running) will have a neutral kaon beamline with a flux three orders of magnitude than that of SLAC. The KLF Collaboration will determine differential cross sections and the self-polarization of hyperons with the GlueX detector to enable precise PWA in order to determine all resonances up to 2500 MeV in spectra of L, S, X, and W.  They further aim to do strange meson spectroscopy by studying the p-K interaction to locate the pole positions in I = 1/2 and 3/2 channels. This work is a link to understand the formation of the universe several microseconds after the big bang.

(she/her/hers)
Office: Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Exploration Hall, 104A

Olga works as a part of the GlueX collaboration in Hall-D at Jefferson Lab. She is interested in meson spectroscopy, particularly in the Dalitz analysis of the hadronic decays of  the η’ meson.  She is also involved in the upgrade of the Forward CALorimeter (FCALII) that will improve the granularity and resolution needed for the upcoming Jlab Eta Factory (JEF) program with GlueX. She is part of D&I initiatives both at GlueX and at GW.

(he/him/his)
Office: Jefferson Lab CEBAF Center

Dr. Scott works on the upcoming K-Long Facility project, which will study the spectroscopy of hyperons and other strange hadrons.

(she/her/hers)
Office: Jefferson Lab CEBAF Center

Phoebe works as part of the GlueX Collaboration, preparing the first experiment using nuclear targets with a 9 GeV real photon beam. In her reseach, she investigates nuclear structure using photoproduction reactions.

(she/her/hers)
Office: Jefferson Lab CEBAF Center

Sara works on the upcoming LAD experiment, investigating the role short-range correlations play in the mysterious “EMC Effect.” In her research, she uses the technique of recoil-tagged deep inelastic scattering to correlate the motion of quarks with the motion of their parent nucleons.

(she/her/hers)
Office: Virginia Science and Technology Campus, Exploration Hall, 104A

Erin works as part of the CLAS Collaboration, both analyzing data from past experiments, and preparing for the upcoming nuclear target run, Run Group M. Currently, she is investigating the differences between proton and neutron motion in helium-3.

(she/her/hers)

Quinn studies the photoproduction of pi-minus mesons from bound neutrons, using the GlueX spectrometer. She has also worked with collaborators in France on the ALERT Experiment (CLAS), on the GlueX Forward Calorimeter upgrade, and on radiative corrections in electron scattering experiments.

(he/him/his)

Jaden works on the Forward Calorimeter Upgrade for the GlueX Spectrometer.

(they/them/their)

August investigates new experimental methods of probing two-photon exchange using polarized proton targets.

(she/her/hers)

Olivia studies the photo-production of omega mesons from deuterium in data collected by the GlueX spectrometer. She has also worked on the GlueX Forward Calorimeter upgrade.